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Mongolians vote as anger grows over corruption and economy

ULAANBAATAR (AFP) : Mongolians voted in parliamentary elections on Friday, with the ruling party widely expected to win despite deepening public…

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21 Gaza cancer patients enter Egypt via Kerem Shalom crossing: medical source

CAIRO (AFP): Twenty-one cancer patients crossed from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip into Egypt on Thursday through the Kerem Shalom crossing,…

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Three killed as train derails in Russia

MOSCOW (AFP): Russian investigators said Thursday that rescuers had found a third body of a passenger, a teenage girl, in…

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US Supreme Court rejects opioid settlement that shields Sackler family

WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the Sackler family that…

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Kazakhstan to hold nuclear plant referendum in autumn

ASTANA (AFP): Kazakhstan will hold a referendum this year on whether to build what could become Central Asia's first nuclear…

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US Supreme Court strips SEC of key enforcement power

WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Supreme Court on Thursday said a tribunal system used by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall…

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Firebomb wounds police officer outside top Greek judge’s home

ATHENS (AFP): A police officer guarding the home of Greece's top judge was wounded in a "murderous" firebomb attack early…

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Former Chinese defence minister expelled from Communist Party: state media

BEIJING (AFP): Former Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party, state media said Thursday,…

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The herders caught in India and China’s icy conflict

NEW DELHI (AFP): Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding…

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‘Dead city’: Russia swoops on Ukraine’s once-calm Toretsk

Toretsk, Ukraine (AFP): Compared to others in war-scarred east Ukraine, Galyna Poroshyna had been lucky to live in Toretsk, a…

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